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...publicly owned. The last private-power company, Omaha's Nebraska Power Co., was bought by a group of Omaha citizens, thanks to the free but personally profitable enterprise of Utility-Promoter Guy C. Myers. But Nebraska Power Co. had not moved easily from its private moorings. In its glacier-slow passage from private to public hands, Nebraska Power split the citizens of Omaha into warring groups, at times chilled even the enthusiasm of Promoter Myers. But Promoter Myers does not stay chilled long...
Goodbye Parangaricutiro. A black, craggy pile, the moving lava constantly cracks chunks off its crust, exposing a gooey, glowing mass underneath (temperature: 1,994° F.). Its approach sets houses afire. Traveling about seven yards an hour, the glacier-like ooze has already spread more than seven miles and engulfed two villages-Paricutin and Parangaricutiro...
...Antarctica and the South Polar regions. The chart, based in part on the surveys of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, was the most complete ever issued for the area. Famous names packed away in this geographer's time capsule: Franklin D. Roosevelt Sea; Ickes Mountain; Cordell Hull Glacier. Eminent names: Rockefeller Plateau; Sulzberger Bay; Edsel Ford Ranges. Other names: Mobiloil Bay; Hearst Land; Paul Block...
Fresh-water anglers have their troubles too. They need only a fishing license and enough tackle to get a bite. But many popular inland haunts like Glacier Park's Paradise Creek and Two-Medicine Lake, many of Maine's 2,500 lakes, are practically inaccessible except by automobile...
...Ninth day. . . . Beans and hamburger for supper. The hamburger had to be cut with two axes. . . . Word comes in tonight that five dog teams are to arrive at the foot of the glacier tomorrow...